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Healthy Stuffed Mushrooms

Melissa King 4 Comments

With the holiday’s coming up, I was thinking about my favorite kinds of appetizers and finger foods I would like to make.  One of my absolute faves is stuffed mushrooms.

I could easily pop like five of those suckers in without realizing.  Since most recipes call for cream cheese or shredded cheese, I wanted to lighten mine up so it was okay to have more than a couple. These babies didn’t last long in my house.

These are really easy to make and you can even do the filling the night before your party and them fill and bake the mushrooms right before your guests arrive.

Stuffed Mushrooms

Healthy Stuffed Mushrooms

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Prep Time 20 min Cook Time 20 min

Ingredients

  • 16 mushrooms
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 carrot roughly chopped
  • 1/2 tsp minced onion
  • 1/2 pkg firm tofu drained and patted dry
  • 2 T grapeseed oil
  • 2 T parsley chopped fine
  • 1/4 cup whole wheat panko bread crumbs
  • 1 T nutritional yeast
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Remove the stems from mushrooms and set aside.
  2. Place the carrot, mushroom stems and garlic in the food processor to dice.
  3. In a skillet pan, saute the carrots, mushroom stems, garlic, onion, salt and grapeseed oil to soften.
  4. Set aside to cool.
  5. Preheat oven to 350.
  6. Once the mixture is cooled, put it back in the food processor with the tofu, parsley nutritonal yeast and bread crumbs and mix until combined.
  7. Place mushroom caps on a greased baking sheet and spoon mixture inside each one.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes or until you start to see moisture under the mushroom caps. Enjoy!

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Sweet and Spicy Holiday Almonds

Melissa King 20 Comments

This is a super easy recipe for a great snack addition to your holiday celebrations.  Who needs chips when you can eat sweet and spicy almonds?  This snack would be great alongside my Gingerbread Granola.  Click here for that recipe.

Roasted Almonds

I am thinking about giving my daughter’s teachers a batch of these instead of the applesauce I was going to make for them.  This is so much easier.  They take only a minute to throw together and then 20 minutes in the oven.  Plus, they will make your house smell fabulous!

Sweet and Spicy Holiday Almonds

Sweet and Spicy Holiday Almonds

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 20 min

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325. 
  2. In a medium sized bowl , add the almonds and the spices. 
  3. Stir them around and then add the molasses and maple syrup. 
  4. Stir until all the nuts are coated. 
  5. Spread them out onto a lined baking sheet , sprinkle with salt and bake for 10 minutes. 
  6. Take them out and shake. 
  7. Then bake for an additional 10 minutes. 
  8. Store in an airtight container once cooled.  Enjoy!

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Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts (Vegan)

Melissa King 13 Comments

Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts.  Just because Thanksgiving is over doesn’t mean we need to give up pumpkin yet.  Here is my second attempt at gluten free baking.

It’s very similar to my pumpkin donuts.

 

gluten free pumpkin donuts

 

These came out pretty good.  They got the thumbs up from my in-laws.  My father in-law is great.  He will try just about anything I give him to taste.

In fact, when they stop by, he checks the cupboard for the goodies. 🙂  We have a family member who has celiac disease so I will probably be experimenting with more of these gluten free recipes in the future.

So here they are.

Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts

Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts!

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 10 min Serves 12 muffins     adjust servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. 
  2. Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl . 
  3. Mix wet in another bowl . 
  4. Add wet to dry and mix until combined.
  5. Spoon batter into greased donut pans and bake for 10 minutes.

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Recipe Notes

I got 12 out of my batch. They should last a couple weeks and you can even freeze them for longer storage. Enjoy!

Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

Melissa King 22 Comments

So the holiday season is officially here.  Let’s bring on the food!

These donuts are full of flavor, with none of the bad stuff.  My kids and husband could not stop eating them.

I know it is going to be a good recipe when Meadow is willing to lick the beater.  She insisted on wearing her Thanksgiving hat she made at school.  Even Olive had a taste.  I wasn’t able to get a picture of that, but here she is eating a cucumber.

Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

Healthy Gingerbread Donuts

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Prep Time 10 min Cook Time 15 min

Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cup spelt flour
  • 1 cup applesauce (unsweetened)
  • 1/3 cup coconut palm sugar
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/4 cup light oil (I used organic safflower)
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 egg (I used a flax egg)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 T ginger
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp cloves

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl.
  3. Mix wet into another.
  4. Add wet to dry slowly. Be careful not to over-mix.
  5. Spoon batter into greased donut pans.
  6. Bake for 15 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Place on a wire rack to cool.

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Recipe Notes

For another yummy gingerbread recipe, click here or here .

Enjoy!

Mean Green Smoothie

Melissa King 20 Comments

My three year old daughter, Meadow, will not try spinach or kale.  That is….until I wrapped them up in a nice smoothie like presentation!

It’s only a little white lie that I told her we were having ice cream for breakfast, right?  It’s like the breakfast cookies or the donuts.  You just wrap the healthy food in a nice little kid friendly package and they cannot resist it.  In fact, she was so anxious to eat it, that she could barely contain herself as I was trying to snap some photos.

Mean Green Smoothie

Mean Green Smoothie

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Prep Time 5 min

Ingredients

  • 2 cups kale stalks removed
  • 1 cup spinach
  • 1 cup frozen blueberries and raspberries
  • 1 1/4 cup almond milk
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1 pkg raw vegan non gmo organic protein powder

Instructions

  1. Throw everything in the blender and blend until smooth.

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Recipe Notes

This is a perfect breakfast to make for kids on the go.  In fact, you can wash and dry the veggies the night before so all you have to do is throw all the ingredients in.  Super easy!